Narrative Landscape/United States/China is a strategic competitor; firmness, derisking and export controls justified

China is a strategic competitor; firmness, derisking and export controls justified

Claim

China is a strategic competitor whose coercion and unfair practices, and whose reach into ports, minerals and shipping routes from Latin America to the Arctic, justify firmness, derisking, export controls and allied coordination.

Normative Conclusion

Western competition consensus

Keywords

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